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People around the country are sewing masks. And some hospitals, facing dire shortage, welcome them

Harmeet Kaur Tami Luhby

March 24, 2020 |

CNN |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: United States, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania

As the shortage of personal protective equipment continues amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, homemade masks are becoming an increasingly important option. While N-95 masks are preferable over homemade cotton masks, hospital facilities including St. Luke’s University Health Network in Pennsylvania have called on individuals to create up to 15,000 masks. By using elastic, and cotton, often from materials around the house, crafty individuals are filling a gap in this crisis.

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Volunteer DIYers meet face mask shortage with needle and thread

Tammy Webber Dee-Ann Durbin Anne D'Innocenzio

March 24, 2020 |

The Christian Science Monitor |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: United States, Washington, Indiana

Community members across the world are working to make homemade masks to help healthcare workers who are facing shortages. In some cases, one person's efforts have balooned into community-wide initiatives, as people unite to play a part in containing the coronavirus.

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Coronavirus Has Hospitals in Desperate Need of Equipment. These Innovators Are Racing to Help.

Haley Willis Robin Stein Natalie Reneau Drew Jordan

March 24, 2020 |

The New York Times |

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5-15 Minutes

Response Location: United States, New Orleans, Louisiana

As personal protective equipment becomes increasingly hard to find, university labs, engineers, and individuals are taking part in a crowdsourced effort to create alternatives. Although their 3D designs and repurposed shields don't take the place of PPE, they do act as safe back-ups for frontline workers facing a shortage.

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S. Korea develops “walk-thru” testing for novel coronavirus

Suh Hye-mi

March 24, 2020 |

The Hankyoreh |

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Response Location: South Korea, Seoul

Drive-through clinics have already been proven to be effective, but now South Korea has successfully implemented "walk-in" clinics. They consist of a phone-booth-sized enclosure in which a clinician can insert their hands into gloves attached to the barrier to collect a sample from the patient inside. The whole process including disinfection takes 10 minutes, and now two walk-in centers have been opened in Seoul.

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Medical Students, Sidelined for Now, Find New Ways to Fight Coronavirus

Abby Goodnough Penina Krieger

March 23, 2020 |

The New York Times |

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Response Location: United States

Medical students have found creative ways to pitch in during the Coronavirus pandemic when they are not yet certified to work with patients. Students across the country are organizing to help out by doing things like offering childcare for medical workers and sourcing personal protective equipment from a range of businesses. The students themselves say that they are happy to do "anything we can do to relieve burden on the real heroes.”

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I Can Sew Homemade Masks. Will Hospitals Use Them Against Coronavirus?

Josie Huang

March 22, 2020 |

LAist |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: United States, Santa Clarita, California

As medical professionals grapple with mask shortages as cases of COVID-19 overwhelm hospitals throughout the U.S., community members are trying to be part of the solution by sewing masks that healthcare workers can use as backups if necessary. Although these can't replace the professional-grade masks, seveal amateur mask-makers are experimenting with materials that increase the effectiveness of the homemade mask.

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Keeping the Coronavirus from Infecting Health-Care Workers

Atul Gawande

March 21, 2020 |

The New Yorker |

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Response Location: Hong Kong

Hong Kong and Singapore are being looked to as potential models of how to contain the coronavirus pandemic, but they also offer lessons about how to keep the frontline health care providers safe during an outbreak as well. From specific protocols about when the use of a N95 mask is necessary to a precise definition of what justifies "close contact," these two countries are showing that occupational exposure isn't necessarily a threat when dealt with properly and proactively.

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As Coronavirus Looms, Mask Shortage Gives Rise to Promising Approach

Gina Kolata

March 20, 2020 |

The New York Times |

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Response Location: United States, Omaha, Nebraska

As hospitals are forced to reuse protective masks during the coronavirus pandemic, researchers at the University of Nebraska are finding ways to decontaminate the masks, including with ultraviolet light.

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Akron Children's Prepared to Help Adult Colleagues

Rachele Mongiovi

March 19, 2020 |

Spectrum News 1 Ohio |

Broadcast TV News |

Under 3 Minutes

Response Location: United States, Akron, Ohio

Akron’s Children’s Hospital has developed an emergency protocol should the COVID19 pandemic reach them. Acting preemptively, they have limited visitors, removed all volunteers over age 60, and have nearly 700 employees working remotely. Feeling prepared, they’re working to help prepare hospitals that serve adult populations as well.

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South Korea's ‘phone booth' coronavirus tests

Zinnia Lee

March 19, 2020 |

South China Morning Post |

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Under 3 Minutes

Response Location: South Korea, Seoul

To prevent the transmission of coronavirus to medical professionals and other patients, a hospital in Seoul has started using a make-shift phone booth approach to administering tests. Within seven minutes, doctors are able to communicate with the patient, conduct the test from within an air-tight booth, and then disinfect the booth, all of which have significantly improved the hospital's efficiency of administering the test.

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